Oh my dear!!!! Are you really this naive??? If I were you I would take like a three week hiatus from this site coz your credibility is rapidly going down the drain. Have you ever travelled outside East Africa?? I shudder that you call yourself a guru yet your ideas are so naive, its laughable. How will the US government stop me from sending money? Do you know how many people live in the US? Do you know that even illegal immigrants can easily send money??So why would the US govt stop me from sending money?? How would they even start implementing that? I have like 4 bank accounts, do you think the US would be willing to waste their time monitoring my accounts which has miniscule amounts compared to the trillions they have? The more you talk, the dumber you sound. I told you I can send a duplicate ATM card to someone in Kenya, should Western Union stop its services (unlikely),I can assure you that the US govt has far more important things to do than to prevent me from sending a couple hundred dollars.In any case, I have rights that the US would have to overcome before stopping me from sending my cash. Actualy that would be a case that would reach the Supreme court, a very expensive process that the US govt would not want to be involved in. People like you are the reason why the west says that Africans' reasoning is like that of a three year old, lets hope we never have your likes leadings our institutions.

The point is to restrict dollar flows to Kenya via remittances!

Maybe its you who needs some exposure

www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Abo...l_crime/iran_banks.shtml

Eish!!! The vitriol! Imezidi. ...obscures any good points that should come across. Please stop addressing each other for a while to cool the temperatures.

In the Virtual Republic of Wazau?

Not a chance!!

what a simpleton!!!!! acha emotions nabwire, think baby think

@liv..the EU and US will have to battel it out in courts with the multinationals. For such flimsy reasons as in the Kenyan case, i doubt they can be able to convince their multinationals.

http://www.forbes.com/si...-against-iranian-banks/



http://www.forbes.com/si...-against-iranian-banks/

A global network for the transfer of funds loses some of its effectiveness once its neutrality becomes tarnished, because any member of the network could be similarly targeted without recourse.

Leibbrandt said, “There is a dialogue going on around the trade-off between using us as a sanctions tool for other countries and impeding our role as really serving as a global infrastructure mechanism.” He added that “there are lots of alternatives to Swift” and international transactions can still be executed by sending instructions via telephone or email, but such alternatives are “not as secure as Swift and [lack] the convenience factor.”

@nabwire..SWIFT also recognise that they are not a monopoly .

@Liv, Kenyan constitutions gives immunity to a sitting president against prosecution. Once elected, the duo might choose to hide under the constitution,you and i will have no way of stopping them.
They've said they'll continue to cooperate,but are they sitting president/deputy yet? Do we expect them to say the truth,the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

I highly doubt. Running the gov't from Hague? How? UK was asked how he plans to run the gov't from the Hague during the debates,instead of answering,he took the cheapest route.
"If Kenyans elect me, then it means they have faith in my ability bla bla bla" Why did he not give the plan?
I've heard people say the bridge will be crossed when we get there. I highly doubt there will be any crossing,thanks to the constitution.
That's HOW sanctions will come. Non-cooperation with the ICC and thereafter, the UN.


@ Nabwire, You send and can send your ATM home because the US gov't lets you. Talk to any Cuban/Venezuelan you might come across. Having said that, i don't think the US gov't will bother with Kenyan remittances.

About multinationals operating in Kenya,we like crying "they milk us". I say they don't. They are investors just like us the locals. If they milk us,then we should try looking/marketing ourselves for FDI. Do you believe the Swedish furniture manufacturing in the US is milking Americans?Is Toyota milking Americans?
The point is, we have four factors of production, only one factor's reward goes to the investor's bank account,PROFITS and most of the time, not all of it. What is the share of profits compared to total revenue?
Now compare the profits to rents/rates, taxes,wages and salaries and other variable costs of production?
Don't look at TAXES only,look at all the other rewards to the other factors of production.
Kenya benefits more from BAT than the shareholders. If BAT closes shop,the shareholders loss would be a drop in the sea compared to the farmers,the suppliers,the employees even without thinking of the gov't.

Multinationals in Kenya are NOT going to close.

However,
with sanctions,it won't be business as usual.
We export apparels to US favorably thanks to AGOA,with sanctions, kiss market away.
We export horticultural produce to EU ,with sanctions,that market might be lost.
Kenya exhibits tourism in any fora we can lay hands on world wide,with sanctions,that won't be the case meaning lower tourist arrivals.

If we cannot get hard currencies from exports and tourism,how are we gonna import oil,machinery and farm inputs? Drugs? Military ware etc etc?
Without oil,farm inputs and machinery,how can we manufacture? Without drugs, we are a sick nation.

Anyone can talk about BRICS,i ask, when was the last time anyone here bought an air ticket,imported machinery or quoted exports in Yuan or Rand?

Bottom line is we need the West,more than they need us.
The West can keep on typing their keyboards without importing anything Kenyan,the line you are about to type has some ware from the West.
If only we could use our minds,build our economy and maybe,in 30 years time,we can start punching with the heavy weights. For now, Kenya is in the feather weight club,how well are we to square it with heavy weights,NOW!

Hii Propaganda imezidi. Hehe...

Let me try and be as dispassionate as possible!

1. If we elect UhuRuto and they co operate with the Hague then there won't be sanctions but just a cut in ties with the West to the bare essentials..

2. If we elect UhuRuto and they DO NOT co operate then we will be in for sanctions..

Nb:(The Kenyan constitution gives immunity to the incumbent president from prosecution OF ANY KIND)